As Post Malone celebrates his first No. 1 on the Billboard 200 albums chart (dated May 12) as well as the biggest streaming week ever for an album, the rapper/singer concurrently breaks the record for the most simultaneous top 20 entries on the Billboard Hot 100 songs chart.

Post Malone, whose sophomore effort Beerbongs and Bentleys opened with 461,000 equivalent album units, according to Nielsen Music, lands nine songs in the top 20 of the Hot 100, shattering the previous record of six, which was shared by The Beatles and J. Cole.

The Beatles held the record for 54 years, as they charted six songs in the top 20 on charts dated April 11 and April 18, 1964.

J. Cole tied the mark just last week (on the chart dated May 5), fuelled by the No. 1 Billboard 200 bow of his latest album, KOD.

Scorpion also controlled the top 25 spots on Apple Music and had reportedly sold approximately 30,000 units overnight.

Drake has held some records in his time and almost got another last year, but was overtaken as Spotify’s ‘Most Streamed Artist’ of 2017, Ed Sheeran.

Ed was crowned the most steamed artist on the service worldwide, scoring more listens than Drake, who took the top spot in 2016, as well as The Weeknd, Kendrick Lamar, and the Chainsmokers respectively, who made up the top five.

Sheeran’s Shape of You unseated Drake‘s One Dance as the most streamed Spotify song of all time earlier this year, so music moguls could’ve seen this coming.

Mr Sheeran himself also took the top spot for most streamed album with his March 2017 release ÷ (Divide), which clocked up an absolutely massive 3.1 billion streams globally.

The album trumped Drake’s More Life, Kendrick’s DAMN, The Weeknd’s Starboy and Post Malone’s Stoney.

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Last year though, Drake did smash a record when he picked up a grand total of 13 Billboard Awards, beating Adele’s 2012 record by one.

Accepting his final award of the night, Drake said:

I just want to say hold tight Adele because when a new ting drops you will crawl your way back to get the record back.

The 13 records: Top male artist, artist of the year, top rap artist, top Billboard 200 album (Views), top hot 100 artist, top rap album (Views), top Billboard 200 artist, top R&B song (One Dance), top streaming artist, top streaming song (One Dance), top song sales artist, top rap tour.